Did I Ever Tell You About....?: Stories from 49 years of coaching

A clip from Episode 1: He Makes Them in His Backyard. If you like it, be sure to listen to the full episode on Did I Ever Tell You?

The episode has stories of a small town football team that found a multitude of ways to lose.

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This is the story of a small town football game in the 1990s in which gunshots disrupted the game. Although quite serious at the time, this is a somewhat humorous look at small town football and what went on that night from one coach's perspective.

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New episode will be out Friday, March 28 telling the story of gunshots at a small school high school game in the late 1990s...be sure to look for it!

This episode centers around coach's mistakes. I tell the story of what led to a coach getting frustrated enough to send the players home from practice, as well as the positives that eventually led to and I'll tell the story of the time I got so angry that I said something that I still regret.

So we have the story of Go Home (you'll have to listen to get the full story behind that name, and the story of the bee.

Both of these stories take place in McBee, SC, as an assistant coach in 1988 and a head coach in 1989, and the two stories feature some of the same players.

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This episode has several stories dealing with scrapes and skirmishes with Human Resources, whether by assistant coaches, emails that shouldn't have been sent, or forging signatures to skip meetings. There's the story of the angry parent who wants to involve the district's HR department, the crazy parent who goes after a special education teacher, and the special education teacher who fakes meetings. Included is an encounter with HR's version of Joe Friday.

Besides the stories, there's some good advice for staying out situations that can get you fired, no matter what job you're in

A departure from coaching and teaching stories, to what happened this weekend with my dogs and our visiting dogs as they escaped the house after midnight

How does Hansel and Gretel fit in with dogs? Listen and find out

In episode 3, I'll tell the story of the greatest coach I ever worked with and how he impacted so many lives. I'll go into what made him great and lead into the story of the incident with a gun and an angry young man.

I'll weave in a little about changes in discipline since I started teaching and coaching in 1973, particularly corporal punishment, and will include the story of two football players who's idea of equal treatment was a bit unusual

If you check out the episode art, I'm on the right with the hair and the shades and Coley is standing in the middle.

This episode centers around a principal who made the job fun and talks about some of his practical jokes, including the LL Bean catalog order, the fake lawyer threatening to sue the elementary school principal as well as the infamous bathroom letter that nearly set off a staff uprising across an entire county.

Entertwined will be the story of one of the biggest speed traps in SC and a unique jury system employed for the traffic court

This is the story of a small town football team that found countless ways to lose a number of close games over several years--ways you'd never even imagine that any team could manage. There are stories of mistakes by players and coaches alike, all contributing to some amusing ways of losing games, culminating with the story that gives the episode it's name